But Is That Brevity or Physicality?

On his recent trip to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Collie-fornia, Hizzoner receives rave reviews:

“I just think he’s refreshing,” said Preston Butcher, a real-estate developer who attended the first fund-raiser, at a hotel in East Palo Alto. “He doesn’t talk out of both sides of his mouth. He’s more interested in people than he is in the party.”

Katherine Alden, a hotel owner, said: “His answers are honest, direct, balanced. I was very, very impressed.”

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Don Troppmann, another guest [at a fund-raising dinner at the Stockton estate of Alex Spanos], offered this succinct comment on the mayor: “He was great. He was short.”